And the Lakers will be on the second night of a back-to-back. Kendall Marshall's looking good, though.
It's pretty pathetic that we have to depend on ish like this, but you're right. No Kobe. No Nash. No Farmar. No Henry. No Blake. Falling to a likely starting lineup of Sacre, Wes Johnson, Kendall Marshall, Jodie Meeks and Gasol -- a couple of nights after they got walloped by the under .500 Nuggets -- that would be pretty unforgivable. Unfortunately, I wouldn't be shocked. :-/ I trust Dwight to dominate if we go to him early and often, though. ETA: And if we don't inexplicably stop going to him in the 2nd half.
Kendall Marshall with the game winning 3 then Dwight and James yelling at Lin on the way to the locker room
Of course... <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Chandler Parsons and Greg Smith both hurt themselves at practice today. Chandler hurt his knee and didn't finish. Doesn't know how bad.</p>— Jenny Dial Creech (@jennydialcreech) <a href="https://twitter.com/jennydialcreech/statuses/420283447312015360">January 6, 2014</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>McHale says Chandler Parsons couldn't finish practice. Dealing with hurt knee. Greg Smith also did not finish practice. <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23rockets&src=hash">#rockets</a></p>— Tiffany Blackmon (@tblackmoncsn) <a href="https://twitter.com/tblackmoncsn/statuses/420283709648953344">January 6, 2014</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>MRI negative. Doesn't think serious. Felt sore while shooting last night. RT <a href="https://twitter.com/jasonmcmeekin">@jasonmcmeekin</a>: <a href="https://twitter.com/Jonathan_Feigen">@Jonathan_Feigen</a> need to know bout parsons knee</p>— Jonathan Feigen (@Jonathan_Feigen) <a href="https://twitter.com/Jonathan_Feigen/statuses/420294316334927872">January 6, 2014</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Possible for a few days, but not yet. Practiced at TC today. RT <a href="https://twitter.com/RedNationBlogga">@RedNationBlogga</a>: <a href="https://twitter.com/Jonathan_Feigen">@Jonathan_Feigen</a> did D-Mo get sent back down to D-League?</p>— Jonathan Feigen (@Jonathan_Feigen) <a href="https://twitter.com/Jonathan_Feigen/statuses/420294620367437824">January 6, 2014</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Parsons said if the Rockets played tonight, there is no way he could play. But hopes he can by Wednesday.</p>— Jenny Dial Creech (@jennydialcreech) <a href="https://twitter.com/jennydialcreech/statuses/420300788921950208">January 6, 2014</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Ok, not to dump everything on McFail, but is this team actually snakebit or are they just doing a p-sspoor job in protecting their players? I've never seen such a young roster have this many injuries. Hell, even the Dream/Barkley/Drexler AARP squad in 1996-97 didn't go through this.
Holy schet. Injuries Injuries everywhere Obviously McHale forced Jones and Parsons to hit each others knees.